Path: csiph.com!au2pb.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!news.etla.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Starmaker Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.math,alt.2600 Subject: number 28 Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2015 13:15:50 -0800 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 14 Message-ID: <5675C906.991@ix.netcom.com> Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com NNTP-Posting-Host: LO5DZ8HQ00G8oSn9+UQOxg.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com sci.physics:540321 sci.math:324600 http://www.engadget.com/2015/12/18/log-into-most-any-linux-system-by-hitting-backspace-28-times/ i discovered the number 28 works on other systems too! for example on twitter when you get the message you used up following limit... you hit 28 and you bypass the limit! Is number 28 a magic number?